His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

If we could only learn to look on evil as evil, whether it's clothed in filth or monotony or magnificence.

I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.

Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law.

He finished his drink. 'I don__ like mornings either,' he said. __hat__ why I__ a writer.

I don__ know any writers who don__ drink.